Metallurgical Engineers Board Exam 2014

The Metallurgical Board Exam, also known as the Metallurgical Engineering Licensure Examination, is a board exam facilitated by the Board of Metallurgical Engineering under the Professional Regulatory Commission to assess the competency of BS Metallurgical Engineering graduates.

As per R.A. 1080, individuals who passed the board exam need not take the civil service exams to be eligible for the following positions:

• Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineer
• Quality Assurance Engineer
• Metallurgy Process Engineer
• Extractive Metallurgy Engineer
• Foundry Metallurgist
• Heat Treatment Metallurgist

Review Courses for Metallurgical Board Exam

There are review courses that you can take to prepare for the board exam. The content of these review courses may vary depending on the review centers, but theyre mostly based on the examination scope released by the Professional Regulatory Commission which includes:

• Metallurgy I
  • Mineral Processing
  • Pyrometallurgy
  • Metallurgical Fuel Technology
  • Refractory Science
  • Hydrometallurgy/Electrometallurgy
  • Metallurgical Physical Chemistry

• Metallurgy II
  • Physical Metallurgy
  • Mechanical Metallurgy
  • Crystallography/Metallography
  • Iron and Steel Metallurgy
  • Non-ferrous Metallurgy
  • Foundry Metallurgy

• Metallurgy III
  • Inorganic Qualitative and Quantitative Chemistry
  • Metallurgical Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Ethics
  • Statistics and Experimental Design
  • Engineering Economics
  • Mechanics
  • Hydraulics
  • Design of Simple Metallurgical Processes/Operation
  • Plants of Facilities

TAKING THE EXAM

Licensure exams for BS Metallurgical Engineering graduates are usually held twice a year. Below are the dates and testing centers for the 2014 Metallurgical Engineers Board Exam:

DATE	DAY/s  PLACE	DEADLINE OF FILING
February 11, 12, & 13, 2014	Tue, Wed, Thu / Manila	January 22, 2014
August 26, 27, 28, 2014	Sat, Sun, Mon / Manila & Davao	August 06, 2014

NATIONAL PASSING RATE

The table below shows the number of board passers in the Licensure Exam for Metallurgical Engineers in the last 3 years:

EXAM	EXAM TAKERS	BOARD PASSERS	PASSING RATE
February 2013	9	3	33.33%
August 2013	42	25	59.52%
August 2012	45	34	75.55%
February 2012	8	7	87.50%
August 2011	40	33	82.50%